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The Drinking Lightweight Gene

December 13, 2024
Research suggests that genetics may play a role in why some people are lightweights when it comes to drinking.
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Sister. Do you have any lightweights in your friend group?
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Like you know the homies that literally have one drink and they
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get li oh yeah,
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I do for sure.
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I have a friend that literally will have one little drink and
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would be like freaking,
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I'd have to hop around.
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I'm like, dude,
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you had one drink who put something in your drink that did
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someone spike it with,
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I don't know, like a drug or something because dude,
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I don't know if you have to take care of her after
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one drink. That's not fun,
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but I guess we got to stop judging them right?
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For babysitting your drinks and for getting too late with one drink
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because research is suggesting that being a lightweight could actually be in
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your genes. So there's those who carry anti alcohol DNA that
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are programmed essentially to feel awful after a small amount of consuming
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drinks. Experts have explained that those with a specific mutated gene
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cannot make an enzyme that helps to break down alcohol.
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It's not their fault.
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So you're telling me to chill out on my lightweight friends that
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they basically can't help themselves or low key be jealous because they
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only need one drink to turn up and,
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you know, drinks be costing $20 nowadays.
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They saving money, dude.
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That's what you need.
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You need this to happen to you.
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Well, I mean,
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you weren't blessed with these jeans.
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Well, I think,
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I think I'm in the middle,
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in the middle. What's your trick?
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You always tell me?
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Oh, yeah. Well,
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maybe I don't want to advise people this though.
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This is my trick.
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I don't eat. I drink a little bit once I feel
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my face getting numb.
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That's when I'm like,
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I'm good, I'm good.
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I'm gonna stay here and then I'm going to eat.
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Don't take advice from Jenny,
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but it's ok. You know,
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that's being financially responsible if you ask me.
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But, well, this comes to show and in conclusion,
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if you're a lightweight,
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it's not your fault.